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Nissan shows off sweat-sensing car and it makes it do this..

Automaker Nissan,
has shown off a prototype sweat-sensing car seat which it says could help
prevent road accidents, Owojela’s Blog learnt.

The
technology, called Soak, changes colour if perspiration is high in salt,
suggesting dehydration.

Previous
research by the European Hydration Institute and Loughborough University found
that dehydrated drivers were as error-prone as those who had drunk alcohol.

There are
currently no plans to bring Soak into production.

The
sweat-sensitive coating, which was developed with Dutch design company Droog,
is also applied to the steering wheel and changes it and the front seats from
blue to yellow to signal dehydration.

Prof Peter Wells,
an expert in business and sustainability from Cardiff University Business
School, said that measuring additional factors which impede drivers' abilities
made as much sense as monitoring factors which affect the vehicle itself.

"This
is part of the overall idea that it's not just about monitoring the car but
also the driver," he said.

"This
particular application is obviously on the edge of usefulness but it shows a
willingness to think more generally about these things and find a way forward.

"I'm
not sure that way of showing you are dehydrated is going to appeal to many
people - but I like the concept."

Prof Wells
added that other potentially measurable factors which affect drivers could
include their emotional state - perhaps by monitoring adrenaline or hormone
levels.

"We are
going to get more and more of this kind of thing. Many factors affect our
ability to drive," he said.

Over the
course of the last few years, Cloudflare built a global network of data center
locations and partnerships to expand its DDoS (Distributed Denial of service) protection,
security tools and website acceleration services.

Nigerian
music producer, Sunday Ginikachukwu Nweke, aka Masterkraft and banky w, has revealed how
R&B singer and actor, Oluwabankole Wellington, Banky W helped him in his
life before he attained stardom.

We hear from
the South by Southwest festival where the usual optimism about the potential of
tech - this after all was where Twitter took off - was replaced by anxiety
about the damage social media can cause.